Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.